David Duke Melts Down During Live Senate Debate

This year's Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate trilogy was an unreservedly horrible experience, like an extended national fever dream that left us tense, sweaty, and more than a little nauseous. But no matter how many imprisonment threats were casually tossed around, those debates had nothing on the Senate race in Louisiana, which is somehow still holdingits debates with less than a week left until the election. In attendance at tonight's event is David Duke, a very bad man who Wikipedia succinctly describes as "American white nationalist, politician, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, and former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan." Although Duke's candidacy has been disavowed by Louisiana Republican politicians, he managed to make the debate stage after he surprisingly cracked 5% in the qualifying poll. Once on stage, he certainly made some kind of impression.

The best part of this tirade is the brief cuts to the other embarrassed candidates, all of whom clearly want to butt in and help out the poor moderator, but are also justifiably terrified that Duke might turn around and hit them on live television. Louisiana debate organizers: next time, consider changing the polling cutoff to "5%, or whatever number keeps a literal former KKK official as far away from the venue as possible." Just a thought.

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